Posts tagged with "CMP"

February 16th, 2018THE Commissioner of Humanitarian Affairs confirmed on Thursday that the remains of two missing persons have been misidentified.
In a statement, reacting to media reports about the error, the commissioner said the misidentified remains had been unearthed in the south of the island.
DNA testing by the Cyprus Institute for Neurology...

January 31st, 2018Portugal has donated €15,000 to the work of the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) it was announced on Wednesday.
It was the first contribution of Portugal to the CMP.
“This donation to the CMP project on the exhumation, identification and return of remains of missing persons in Cyprus will contribute to the Committee’s goal...

December 16th, 2017Presidential Commissioner Photis Photiou said on Saturday that despite the obstacles raised by the Turkish side, “we continue and will continue to do everything possible to ascertain the fate of every missing person”.
Speaking at an event to mark the decoration of the Christmas Tree for the Missing Persons in central Nicosia,...

December 3rd, 2017Turkey's refuses to provide information on missing persons, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Sunday, adding that Ankara had tried to cover up its war crimes by moving remains to hamper the work of the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP).
"We will insist and continue our efforts," he said atam event for missing...

November 28th, 2017Relatives of missing persons from the occupied village of Assia on Tuesday criticised the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) for making their pain worse by not first investigating the validity of information that the remains of their loved ones had been moved from their mass grave to a former landfill in Dikomo in the north before...

November 19th, 2017The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) is to visit a former landfill in Dikomo in the north, where the remains of around 70 people from Assia, who were murdered by Turkish soldiers during the 1974 invasion, are believed to be buried.
According to the Greek Cypriot member of the CMP, Nestoras Nestoros, the Turkish Cypriot side...

November 7th, 2017The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) on Tuesday expressed its thanks to the Republic of Cyprus for its donation of €265,000.
In addition to the yearly contribution of €125,000, it includes €140,000 in funding for archive research. This allocation brings the Republic of Cyprus’ financial assistance to the CMP to a total of...

November 1st, 2017By Angelos Anastasiou
Excavation work to retrieve the remains of 31 victims of a bomb dropped during the first leg of the invasion of the northern part of Cyprus by the Turkish air force on July 20, 1974, at the location where the Nicosia General hospital has since been built started on Wednesday.
According to reports, 28 of the...

October 25th, 2017EXCAVATIONS at Athalassa hospital are set to begin next week, Presidential Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs Photis Photiou said on Wednesday.
Speaking during the House Committee session, he said the excavations will begin on Wednesday “where our compatriots have been buried for 43 years.”
Asked on the number of fallen...

October 12th, 2017Teams searching for people missing since the intercommunal clashes in the 60s and the Turkish invasion in 1974 have located the remains of two individuals during an excavation inside a military zone in the north.
A statement from the committee on missing persons (Cmp) said the remains were exhumed in Kontemenos, located north-west of...

October 7th, 2017There can be no solution with Turkish guarantees and intervention rights, nor with the permanent presence of Turkish troops, Presidential Commissioner Photis Photiou reiterated on Saturday at the funeral of an identified missing person.
Photiou was addressing the funeral of Kyriakos Aristodimou, who had been missing since 1974 and...

August 19th, 2017Digging for the remains of Greek Cypriot missing persons in two mass graves at Ornithi, an area just outside the Turkish-held village of Ashia will commence by the end of next month, the Greek Cypriot member of the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) Nestoras Nestoros said on Friday.
Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency, Nestoros said...

August 6th, 2017Turkey bears great responsibility as regards the humanitarian issue of missing persons in Cyprus, Presidential Commissioner Photis Photiou said on Sunday.
In his speech at a memorial service for the people of Livadia, in the Larnaca district, who went missing or were killed during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, Photiou said...

July 21st, 2017The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) on Friday expressed its thanks to Ireland for its donation of €25,000.
This brings the Irish financial assistance to the CMP to a total of €325,000 over the past ten years.
“This donation to the CMP Project on the Exhumation, Identification, and Return of Remains of Missing Persons in...

July 14th, 2017The Netherlands has donated €122,000 to the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP), it was announced on Friday.
According to a news release, the committee expressed its sincere thanks to the Netherlands for its donation, which brings the Dutch financial assistance to the CMP to a total of €622,000 over the past eleven...

July 13th, 2017The Federal Republic of Germany donated on Thursday €100,000 to the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP).
“This donation to the CMP Project on the exhumation, identification and return of remains of missing persons in Cyprus will contribute to the Committee’s goal of identifying and returning as many remains of missing individuals...

June 29th, 2017Experts working for the missing persons committee (CMP) have located the remains of at least one individual in a military area in Dherynia, Famagusta, it was announced on Thursday.
The CMP said its bi-communal excavation teams were continuing excavations at Voni/Gökhan, Bogazi/Boğaz, and Kontemenos/ Kılıçarslan, which are inside...

June 20th, 2017A skull found on Monday in an area called Elisi, between Ayios Symeon and Korovia on the Karpas peninsula in the north, is thought to belong to an Ottoman Muslim, the daily Kibris newspaper reported.
Turkish Cypriot authorities and archaeologists from the Missing Persons Committee went to the area to investigate the skull, found lying...

May 26th, 2017The remains of 16 Greek soldiers who were killed during the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus and of one soldier who was killed on board the vessel Fatehon in 1964 when the Turkish air force bombed and sank the ship were returned on Friday.
A special church ceremony to mark the return took place in Nicosia.
The remains were...

May 21st, 2017Politis says it may have solved the mystery of the identity of an elderly woman hurriedly buried in an existing grave in the north in 1974, and that it might be the great-grandmother of murdered businessman Phanos Kalopsidiotis, it reported on Sunday.
Two weeks ago the paper published a photo of what appeared to be the only intact...

May 18th, 2017The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) on Thursday thanked Australia for its donation of €7,000 saying this had brought the country’s financial assistance to the CMP to a total of €13,300 over the past ten years.
The CMP said the donation would contribute to its goal of identifying and returning as many remains of missing...

May 16th, 2017The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) excavation teams have located the remains of one individual in a civilian area in Famagusta, and the remains of two additional individuals within a military zone at Saint Hilarion in the north, on May 15, the Committee said.
In addition to the aforementioned sites, the CMP bi-communal excavation...

May 11th, 2017Human remains were found on Thursday in a military zone in Ayios Ilarionas on Pentadaktylos mountain range in the north.
The discovery was made by crews working for the committee on missing persons. Greek Cypriot member of the CMP Nestoras Nestoros said the remains were found north of a furnace in which bones were discovered in the...

May 11th, 2017Documents retrieved from United Nations archives in New York are to be used to help investigators locate some of the island’s missing, the Committee for Missing Persons announced on Tuesday.
Three members of the committee were in New York from April 24 to May 5 to search confidential and publicly accessible UN archives from the...

April 21st, 2017The families of three Greek soldiers, who went missing during the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, have been informed this week that their remains were recently identified and they will be handed over to the next of kin during an official ceremony in Cyprus on May 25.Their remains were found during the period January to May 2015, close...

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